A typology of the mass/count distinction in Brazil and its relevance for mass/count theories
Edited by Suzi Oliveira de Lima and Susan Rothstein
Special issue of Linguistic Variation 20:2 (2020) vi, 247 pp.
Susan Rothstein
List of John Benjamins publications in which Susan Rothstein is involved.
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Current Issues in Generative Hebrew Linguistics
Edited by Sharon Armon-Lotem, Gabi Danon and Susan Rothstein
This volume presents a collection of specially commissioned papers devoted to analyzing the linguistics of Modern Hebrew from a number of perspectives. Various aspects of Modern Hebrew grammar are discussed including the structure of the lexicon, grammatical features and inflectional morphology, as… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 134] 2008. vii, 393 pp.
Theoretical and Crosslinguistic Approaches to the Semantics of Aspect
Edited by Susan Rothstein
The papers in this volume investigate the semantics of aspect from both a theoretical and a crosslinguistic point of view, in a wide range of languages from a number of different language families. The papers are all informed by the belief that a thorough exposure to the expression of aspect… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 110] 2008. viii, 453 pp.
2020 Can mass-count syntax be derived from semantics? Mass and Count in Linguistics, Philosophy, and Cognitive Science, Moltmann, Friederike (ed.), pp. 83–102 | Chapter
Analysing aspects of how our brain processes language may provide, even before the language faculty is really understood, useful insights into higher order cognitive functions. We have taken initial steps in this direction, focusing on the mass-count distinction. The mass-count distinction… read more
2020 A typology of the mass/count distinction in Brazil and its relevance for mass/count theories A typology of the mass/count distinction in Brazil and its relevance for mass/count theories, Oliveira de Lima, Suzi and Susan Rothstein (eds.), pp. 174–218 | Article
While much work has been done on the description of the mass/count distinction in different geographical areas, Brazilian Indigenous languages are still highly underrepresented in the field. This paper presents the results of a project that involved researchers describing the mass/count… read more
2020 Comparatives in Brazilian Portuguese: Counting and measuring Mass and Count in Linguistics, Philosophy, and Cognitive Science, Moltmann, Friederike (ed.), pp. 141–158 | Chapter
Comparatives in Brazilian Portuguese show that Bale and Barner’s (2009) generalizations do not hold cross-linguistically; this leads to reconsidering the role of cardinality in mass and count syntax. The paper discusses contrasts in the use of naturally atomic, or object, mass nouns in Brazilian… read more
2017 Chapter 7. Hungarian classifier constructions, plurality and the mass–count distinction Approaches to Hungarian: Volume 15: Papers from the 2015 Leiden Conference, Hulst, Harry van der and Anikó Lipták (eds.), pp. 183–208 | Chapter
We argue that Hungarian has both mass and count nouns, and a plural marker which is sensitive to the distinction, as well as a system of sortal classifiers. In English, most nouns are either mass (e.g mud) or count (e.g. book), and there are only a limited number of fully flexible nouns with both… read more
2013 Bare singular arguments in Brazilian Portuguese: Perfectivity, telicity, and kinds New Perspectives on Bare Noun Phrases in Romance and Beyond, Kabatek, Johannes and Albert Wall (eds.), pp. 189–222 | Article
This paper examines the distribution and the interpretation of Brazilian Portuguese bare singular arguments of episodic predicates, in particular as themes. We argue that these bare singulars cannot be interpreted as indefinites as suggested in Schmitt and Munn (1999) and Müller (2002). Instead we… read more
2013 Some cross-linguistic aspects of bare NP distribution: Modern Hebrew and Brazilian Portuguese New Perspectives on Bare Noun Phrases in Romance and Beyond, Kabatek, Johannes and Albert Wall (eds.), pp. 35–62 | Article
This paper shows that Modern Hebrew bare singular kind-denoting NPs, although superficially similar to kind-denoting bare singulars in Brazilian Portuguese, are in fact different in terms of distribution and interpretation. While bare singulars in Brazilian Portuguese are not restricted to a… read more
2008 Current issues in generative Hebrew linguistics Current Issues in Generative Hebrew Linguistics, Armon-Lotem, Sharon, Gabi Danon and Susan Rothstein (eds.), pp. 1–24 | Article
2008 Introduction Theoretical and Crosslinguistic Approaches to the Semantics of Aspect, Rothstein, Susan (ed.), pp. 1–10 | Miscellaneous
2008 2. Telicity, atomicity and the Vendler classification of verbs Theoretical and Crosslinguistic Approaches to the Semantics of Aspect, Rothstein, Susan (ed.), pp. 43–77 | Article
1992 Predication and the Structure of Clauses Predication, De Caluwé, Johan, André Hantson and Willy Vandeweghe (eds.), pp. 153–169 | Article